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Memento vs Memorial - What's the difference?

memento | memorial |

As nouns the difference between memento and memorial

is that memento is a keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event while memorial is a structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.

As an adjective memorial is

serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.

memento

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.
    • I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 16 , author=Denis Campbell , title=Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.}}

    Usage notes

    * The alternate spelling momento is so common, some references now no longer consider it a misspelling.

    Synonyms

    * keepsake * souvenir * (plural) memorabilia

    References

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    memorial

    English

    (wikipedia memorial)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event
  • A service of remembrance or commemoration
  • (legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
    • a memorial building
  • * Alexander Pope
    • There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
  • Contained in the memory.
    • a memorial possession
  • Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
  • * Skeat
    • This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.